Kansas Wesleyan University Athletics will induct five individuals and two championship teams into the Jerry Jones Kansas Wesleyan Coyote Athletic Hall of Fame this fall during Homecoming Weekend on campus.
The Hall of Fame breakfast and induction ceremony will be held on Saturday morning, October 25, starting at 8 a.m. inside Muir Gymnasium on the KWU campus. It will be held in conjunction with the university's alumni awards ceremony. Tickets are available for the 2025 Hall of Fame and Alumni Awards at www.kwu.edu/homecoming2025.
The 2025 inductees include women's volleyball star Melissa (Blair) Schwieger, cross country and track and field standouts Jolene Mick and Paul Buhl, football coach Dave Dallas, and Drew Dallas, coach of the NJCAA National Champion Hutchinson Blue Dragons, who will be inducted for post-graduate accomplishments.
The 1999 men's soccer team and the 2011 women's volleyball team will also be inducted.
Selections for induction to the Hall of Fame were conducted by a vote of the Hall of Fame Committee members.
Schweiger had an outstanding career for the Coyotes on the volleyball court. She still ranks among the Top 5 in KWU history in career kills, attack percentage, total blocks, assisted blocks and blocks per set. She was a four-time All-KCAC pick and was named the 2014 KCAC Player of the Year and NAIA Honorable Mention All-American.
Mick was an outstanding runner for the KWU Cross Country and Track programs. She was a 2-time KCAC Champion in cross country in 2006 and 2007 and finished 22nd in the 2006 NAIA National Championships, earning All-America honors.
Buhl was a four-time Top 5 finisher in the KCAC Cross Country Championships and was the KCAC Champion in 1979. He helped the 1977 and 1978 teams win the KCAC Cross Country Championship. He was a long-time record holder for the Coyotes in the 8000m cross country race.
Dave Dallas ranks second in all-time wins in Kansas Wesleyan Football history with 94. He spent 17 seasons with the Coyotes, leading KWU from a 4-26 combined record in the three seasons before his arrival, to KCAC Champions in just five seasons. He was instrumental in building enrollment at KWU by growing the football squad size from 55 to nearly 100 upon his arrival.
After a solid career playing football at Kansas Wesleyan, Drew Dallas moved into the coaching ranks and has built one of the best programs in the country at Hutchinson Community College. In five seasons as head coach of the Blue Dragons, Dallas has posted a 49-5 record, winning the Jayhawk Conference four times, making three appearances in the NJCAA Championship Game, winning the NJCAA National Championship twice including this past season.
The 1999 men's soccer team was the first to win the KCAC postseason tournament in just the fourth year of the program's existence. The Coyotes also were KCAC Regular Season Champions that season and continued on to win the National Small College Athletic Association National Championship for a third straight season.
The 2011 women's volleyball team was KCAC Regular Season and Tournament champions, marking the first time in school history the program won both titles in the same year, the feat coming just two years after coach Fred Aubuchon inherited a program with just one win. After winning the KCAC tournament, the Coyotes hosted an NAIA Opening Round match against Oklahoma Baptist and beat the Bison in four sets to advance the National Championship final site in Sioux City, Iowa, a first-ever program feat.
The Kansas Wesleyan Coyote Athletic Hall of Fame was started by former coach and Athletics Director Jerry Jones in 1986 as part of the university's centennial celebration. In 2022, Kansas Wesleyan renamed it the Jerry Jones Kansas Wesleyan University Coyote Athletic Hall of Fame in Jones' honor.
Full bios of each inductee are below.
Melissa (Blair) Schweiger - Women's Volleyball
Melissa (Blair) Schweiger had a phenomenal career for the Coyotes from 2011 to 2014. She ranks fourth in KWU career history with 1016 kills, one of only five players all-time with 1000 or more career kills. Her career attack percentage of .291 ranks third best all-time. Blair is also the career leader in blocks for the Coyotes with 531, which includes a school record 467 assisted blocks, and 64 solo blocks which ranks ninth best all-time. Her 1.01 blocks per set average ranks fifth-best all-time.
She was a two-time Honorable Mention All-KCAC pick in 2011 and 2012, second-team All-KCAC in 2013, and was the 2014 KCAC Player of the Year, a first-team selection, AVCA All-Region and Honorable Mention All-America.
She was a key role player on the 2011 KCAC Championship team that won the KCAC tournament, and the NAIA Opening Round to become KWU's first-ever team to reach the final site. She also was a key player on the 2014 KCAC Championship team.
Jolene Mick - Women's Cross Country and Track and Field
Jolene Mick was an outstanding runner for the Kansas Wesleyan Cross Country and track programs. She was a 2-time KCAC Champion, winning the 2006 and 2007 KCAC Championships. In 2006, Mick finished 22nd, earning NAIA All-America honors at the NAIA National Championships.
She qualified for the NAIA Indoor National Championships in the 5000m, the NAIA Outdoor National Championships in the 10000m in 2008, was part of the distance medley relay that qualified for Indoor Nationals in 2009 and the 5000m.
She still holds the KWU record in the half marathon.
In addition to her induction to the Jerry Jones Kansas Wesleyan Coyote Athletic Hall of Fame, Mick is a member of the Cloud County Community College Athletic Hall of Fame, where she was the individual NJCAA National Champion in cross country in 2003 and was a nine-time NJCAA All-American in her time at Cloud County. She was also awarded the Most Valuable Athlete Award at the 2004 NJCAA Indoor National Track and Field Meet in which she won the 3,000 and 5,000-meter races. Mick currently holds six individual Cloud County school records in distance events.
Paul Buhl - Cross Country and Track and Field
Paul Buhl was excellent for the Coyotes in cross country. He was part of the 1977 and 78 KCAC Cross Country Championship teams. He was a 3-time qualifier for the NAIA National Championships. He finished in the top 5 of the KCAC Championships all four years winning the KCAC Championship meet in 1979. He once held the fastest 8000m race time in school history at 25:32.
Dave Dallas - Football Coach
In 1997, Dallas took over a struggling Kansas Wesleyan program that had gone 4-26 the previous three years before his arrival. In just five years, in 2001, Wesleyan captured its first KCAC title since 1982, and made the school's first ever NAIA Football Championship Series appearance.
He posted a 94-79 record with the Coyotes, good enough for second all-time in total coaching wins at KWU. His .543 winning percentage at KWU is third-best all time among coaches who coached at least five seasons at KWU.
While at KWU, Dallas captured two KCAC Championships in 2001 and 2002, and guided the Coyotes to their only two NAIA Post Season Championship berths in those same years at the time. Dallas was named the 2001 KCAC Coach of the Year.
During his tenure at Wesleyan, Dallas coached six NAIA All-Americans, and over 300 All-KCAC players, including eight KCAC Players of the Year. One of Dallas' team goals was for the players to complete their degrees, and Dallas coached over 50 NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
Dallas played collegiately at Missouri Western, and began his coaching career there as a graduate assistant for two seasons in 1983 and 1984. After finishing his degree at MWSU in 1984, Dallas spent one season at Truman State University (then Northeast Missouri State) in 1985, as the Bulldogs captured the MIAA title that season with an 8-3 overall record, and 5-0 in the MIAA.
After taking a year off from the college ranks to coach at Rolla High School in Rolla, Mo., Dallas became defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, for two seasons, before taking the head coaching job at Ottawa in 1989 where the team went 38-39-1 during his tenure.
Drew Dallas - Post-Graduate Accomplishments
Drew Dallas has made a name for himself as an outstanding coach at the junior college level. Drew Dallas is being selected for induction to the Jerry Jones Athletic Hall of Fame for his accomplishments after leaving KWU.
In just five seasons into his tenure at Hutchinson Community College, Dallas has amassed a record of 49-5 with four Jayhawk Conference championships, a KJCCC Playoff championship, three appearances in the NJCAA national playoffs, three appearances in the NJCAA Championship Game and two national championships.
The 49 wins are the most by a Blue Dragon coach in his first five seasons. Dallas' four-year total also includes 33 NJCAA All-Americans and 11 all-Jayhawk Conference selections with five KJCCC Players of the Year and two NJCAA National Players of the Year.
Dallas also had coaching stops at Angelo State from 2011 to 2018 and at Kansas Wesleyan from 2009 to 2010.
During his playing days as a quarterback, Dallas started his collegiate career at Fort Hays State in 2004 and 2005. He finished his collegiate career at Kansas Wesleyan in 2006 and 2007. He was a two-time Honorable Mention All-KCAC player at KWU, throwing for 2905 yards and 33 touchdowns in two years while also running for 508 yards and eight touchdowns while captaining a run-oriented offense for the Coyotes.
Dallas graduated from Salina Central High School in 2004. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Health, Physical Education & Recreation from Kansas Wesleyan in 2009 and his Masters of Education in Educational Administration from Angelo State in 2013.
Dallas and wife, Heather, have two daughters, Hayden and Parker, and a son, Cooper.
1999 Men's Soccer - KCAC Champions, NSCAA Champions
1999 Men's Soccer team was the first KWU men's soccer team to win the KCAC Postseason Tournament, defeating Bethany 2-0 to win KCAC Tournament. KWU also won the KCAC Regular season title with a 7-0-1 record, drawing with Southwestern in the first conference match of the year, then going 7-0 afterwards. KWU outscored KCAC opponents 28-4 during the season. KWU continued its high level of success winning the National Small College Athletic Association National Championship that season for the third straight season. KWU finished with a 17-2-4 record.
Head Coach Brian Berner was named as the KCAC Co-Coach of the Year, Murad Dibbini was the Offensive Player of the Year and Jason Todd was named Co-Defensive Player of the Year.
Dibbini, Merrick Henry, Frank Bustos, Geoff Carlson and Jason Todd were named First Team All-KCAC and Ozzy Perez was named to the second team.
Team Members:
Frank Bustos, Geoff Carlson, Jerrod Cline, Murad Dibbini, Mike Fernandez, Ricardo Garcia, Merrick Henry, Laith Jones, Nick Long, Fuku Mori, Nick Owen, Craig Peck, Ozzy Perez, Thomas Potter, Ricardo Ramos, David Thompson, Mike Thomsen, Jason Todd, Kevin Williams, Val Zuck, Head Coach Brian Berner, Assistant Coach Phil Miller.
2011 Women's Volleyball - KCAC Champions, NAIA Opening Round Champions, National Tournament Final Site Appearance
The 2011 Kansas Wesleyan Women's Volleyball team won the KCAC Regular Season and Conference Tournament titles, marking the first time in school history that the feat had been accomplished. The conference title came just two years after Aubuchon inherited a down program that won just one match in 2009, his first year as coach.
The 2011 squad posted a 27-11 overall record and a 17-1 record in the KCAC.
KWU won the KCAC Tournament in a thrilling five-set victory inside Mabee Arena over Tabor College, winning 16-14 in the fifth set. A week later, KWU hosted the NAIA National Championship Opening Round against Oklahoma Baptist, beating the Bison in four sets to become the first-ever KWU Women's Volleyball team to reach the NAIA National Championship final site in Sioux City, Iowa.
Coach Fred Aubuchon was named as the KCAC Coach of the Year, and was AVCA West-Central Region Coach of the Year. Leah Keller and Kelsey Boyles were named first team All-KCAC, Pauline Yang, Breanne Schultz and Juli Miles were second team All-KCAC, and Melissa Blair was honorable mention All-KCAC.
Keller and Boyles were named AVCA All-Region and Keller was named as honorable mention NAIA All-American.
The team also excelled academically, earning the AVCA NAIA Team Academic Award.
Team Members: